Has music streaming just gotten me accustomed to exhilarating, wide access that is just not sustainable ethically?

I know I could buy thousands of vinyl records, or even thousands of purchased digital downloads, but I don’t have the means to get huge coverage.

As someone for whom a wide variety of readily available music-listening has become such an amazing part of wellbeing, but also as someone who deeply, deeply respects musicians and THEIR wellbeing: is there a music streaming service that is actually ethical for me to use and pay money to?

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

-Octavia Butler

Music streaming services have their issues, for sure, but wow there are few things better than just hanging out with friends and jumping from song to song, following the collective will for hours on end. Last night we took a long tour from industrial to new wave and beyond.

SongMoments Share and discuss the most extraordinary and goosebump-inducing moments in music: the riffs, drops, key changes, lyrics, or transitions that make you stop in your tracks. Moments can be musical or pe...

It’s a psychedelic short story about a man losing his lover to a ghost, inspired by a real woman who claimed to date ghosts.

It’s been logged on r/SongMoments, where people catalog timestamped “chills” moments across songs:

www.reddit.com/r/SongMoments/

The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Amethyst Realm (Official Audio) YouTube video by TCLDeliriumVEVO

Perfect Halloween listen: The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Amethyst Realm.

At 5:00 the haze clears — synths and guitars drop out, and Claypool’s bass snarls, demanding answers from the spirit world.

Goosebumps!

youtu.be/cHyzNmQa9Q0?...

Photos of Mount Thielsen in Oregon

The Mountain West is the best. I could (and might!) spend the rest of my days wandering around here. (Pictured: Mount Thielsen in Oregon)

There are few things as glorious as riding a dirt motorcycle into the middle of nowhere, where so many best laid plans can go awry and the nearest help is many, many, many miles away. But you ride in with friends who… oh, wait a minute… are just as crazy as you are. What could go wrong?

How Far Can You Hike With Only What’s on Your Back? » Explorersweb Roman Dial is both an Alaskan backcountry legend and a mathematician. He has created an easy-to-use formula on how far you can hike unsupported.

I'm in awe of these people. "Each man carried close to 100,000 calories worth of food and planned to burn thousands from their own bodies." explorersweb.com/how-far-can-...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching YouTube video by owen reiser

This is an incredibly funny, heartfelt, and well-made documentary. "Two brothers learn about competitive birdwatching by becoming birdwatchers—spending a year living in a used minivan, traveling the country to compete in a ‘Big Year'." Free to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now YouTube video by Venus Theory

Great video that argues music streaming services are totally broken for independent musicians and their fans. I had no idea about most of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=plle...

Do you think the AT Protocol vs. ActivityPub situation has the same spirit as the RSS/Atom era, or do you see it differently? Would love to hear your thoughts.

I think this was just in SF somewhere, but maybe past 24th. Transbay is perfect for this though, you’re right!

The National Anthem YouTube video by Radiohead - Topic

The whining roar of the BART train on its tracks through a tunnel just now mixed perfectly with Radiohead’s “The National Anthem.” IYKYK youtu.be/NfQD1QiQ9o4?...

Photo of book Design is a Job

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever purchased, @monteiro.bsky.social. People, get yours here: www.mulebooks.com/design-is-a-...

In life, as in UX, always progressively disclose.

Lovely cover!

Introducing Feed Sharing on Smashing It's now easier than ever to supercharge your interest feeds.

More about Feed Sharing on Smashing: smashing.substack.com/p/introducin...

Greg Veen's Open Social Web interest feed on Smashing

I'm using @smashing-app.bsky.social to discover and curate news about the growing enthusiasm for the open social web movement, and now I have a way to share it! Smashing's new Feed Sharing lets you get my Open Social Web feed on Smashing or merge it into any of your own: smashing.xyz/feed?share=3...

Design and build as little as possible, as quickly as possible.

Smashing app

I’ve been busy working on an important problem: there's more great reading on the web than ever before, but it too often gets lost in the noise. So I'm excited to announce smashing.xyz, a community that's curating the best of the web.

More about our vision: medium.com/@otown/annou...

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